New Deal and Flexible New Deal Exposed

I just found an excellent website exposing the Ingeus UK outfit this company is going down very soon I think.

Here is the link

http://ingeusdontwork.wordpress.com/

I just found an excellent website exposing the Ingeus UK outfit this company is going down very soon I think.

I went for the re-arranged signing and have signed on again since. I am signing on every week at the moment, alternate weeks is a longer interview. This is normal after 3 months it seems. They had just brought the whole thing forward a week for some reason.

The job I didn’t want was not anything like the jobs I promised to go for. It was advertised as a “distributor” but the only vacancies left were canvassing double glazing door to door – so no falut on my part according to the Job Centre bloke who saw me. He seemed much more knowledgeable and reasonable than most.

Cheers

Neeylbee

i started on flexible new deal 5 weeks ago. i came off incapacity to get a job but because i had a failed operation in 2006 which has damaged all the nerves in my right arm im finding it hard to get a job.

im also disabled with the chronic illness lupus which ive had for 14 years. my time on flexible new deal has not been a happy one, the best time was the induction since then everything has been downhill. ive been bullied by the caseworker as they call them, when she wasnt getting anywhere i was then taken to the manager and i had both of them bullying me, when i got home my husband said how did it go, and i burst out crying.

I have an action plan of i have to reply to 5 jobs a week, i dont have a car, and most of the local vacancies im not qualified to do so i dont know how i am supposed to achieve this, and know if you dont fill your joblog in properly they are going to stop your money.

All they can come up with, although i have experience in retail in their opinion they dont think im suited to this, but wait for this……………. in their opinion they think im more suited to care cleaning vomit and sh*t up, i havent spent years getting qualifications to put them in the bin, and i felt insulted at the suggestion, i then got threatened with a sanction of no money and i was being difficult.

And since then ive been called a liar, and a malinger, there is nothing wrong with me, so to prove my innocence i go to the hospital to see my consultant and hes appalled a how the way im being treated.

I have received an apology from the JCP but they havent done anything on FND that i could not have done at home or with the help of the JCP. in fact i feel more depressed since going there than i did being unemployed.

As for the placements that are on offer are for 4 weeks and they are in charity shops, which is really going to impresss employers NOT!

Like everyone thats unemployed i have been looking for a good quality job that has prospects, all FND have to offer, is something your not experienced at and dont have the skills and which you will be signing back on JSA in 4 weeks time. as the caseworker said to me they cannot help any of the unemployed till they get a job.

I dont know if the government are working on something as the JCP told me wait till 20 weeks does he know something i dont?

in the meantime im left their, but im applying for the jobs they give me, if i go and get it, and i injure myself my boyfriends said start personal injury claims.

I have done research on FND and this is the labour parties baby, and they have given the providers free reign to do what ever they like to us to get results. And we dont have anyone we can complain too, and if we try you get threatened to have your money taken away.

I hope this gets printed in its own entirety as i feel people need to be aware what FND is actually like, your not treated fairly or compassionately, your not matched with employers based on your skill and experience. they have a vacancy you can do it, thats the FND criteria.

two weeks ago i had not heard of pertemps ,then my husband reached the majic 52 weeks unemployed mark and since then my days have been filled with reading,complaining,researching (i myself reach 52 weeks and prospective slavery in november)
my complaints t PPDG about the language used to and treatment of my husband and the other clients in their offices, a detailed complaint to the jobcentre plus and a visited to my MP did result in the PPDG area manager wishing to meet with my husband and myself.PPDG accepted that their staff were at fault and that the issues would be addressed,although i myself would expect that this would require intensive training in social role valorisation priniciples ,to learn good manners ,and to have respect for the unemployed people who they treat with contempt and view as a subspecies.
imagine my horror to find that training is being used as a name for enforced labour ,slavery or as my husband puts it compulsory voluntary work.PPDG here in stoke on trent have mentioned that this glorious “training” will be litter picking and graffiti removal most likely( i thought that was used as punishment in this country when community service is the sentence)
so at age 50 , a graduate with 30 years experience and many NI and tax payments beneath my belt i shall look forward to litter picking, assisting me back into employment (ofcourse there have to be jobs available to be employed)
The pertemps trainers who earn £22511 per annum will have to prove to be working effectively or i will be asking for them to be sanctioned ie sacked,it seems only fair after all

You mean the jobcentre wnat you to phone for an application, or is it a telephone interview?

You have two options: a) don’t bother phoning and tell the jobcentre you did OR b) phone and make sure sure you mess up the interview/application form – tell them the truth it being too far away from where you live.

I don’t see how the jobcentre can find out if you gor for a), thye’d be breaking the the Data Protrction Act unless you give the prospective employer permission to share your info with the jobcentre.

Good luck.

I’ve been “Matched” to a job way out from where i currently live and the guy expects me to phone up an ask for an interview. My only mode of transport is the bus will he find out if i dont apply?